Example sentences of "[adv] coming to [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For an eleven year old schoolgirl , it 's not easy coming to terms with having a plastic eye . |
| 2 | Either side of the Refuge , time closed in , with meetings , the children to be looked after , books to be read , until she felt light-headed with the sense of not coming to grips with anything , of being forced to spin like a top . |
| 3 | At the time , Lineker was just coming to terms with the fact that his baby son , George , was battling against leukaemia . |
| 4 | When Diana joined the Stewart-Richardsons they were just coming to terms with a family tragedy . |
| 5 | I suppose that I was influenced by the exploits of the great test pilots of the day , people like Peter Twiss , Neville Duke and John Derry , who were at the time just coming to grips with high-speed flight and what was called the ‘ sound-barrier ’ . |
| 6 | Some sort of dress rehearsal was clearly required for the Cypriot police officers who were only just coming to grips with wiretap technology , and , right on cue , one of Hurley 's informants passed the word that Abou Daod , a Lebanese drugs trafficker , was coming to Cyprus to set up a deal . |
| 7 | After many years and three gardens , the optimism is going well ; I still battle with my impatience , but I am finally coming to grips with giving the essentials of sustenance to the garden . |
| 8 | The pre-tax figure was above City expectations and gave evidence that the bank is finally coming to grips with its bad-debt problem . |
| 9 | ONE OF two sprawling films ( Heimat being the other ) that marked Germany finally coming to terms with the war , relatively free of guilt . |
| 10 | Fortunately , ex-Prisoner James Taylor is aware of the problem and is finally coming to terms with it after five albums of patchy solo meanderings . |
| 11 | Fortunately , ex-Prisoner James Taylor is aware of the problem and is finally coming to terms with it after five albums of patchy solo meanderings . |
| 12 | The public and the teenage press were , in fact , already coming to terms with the punks , but these skins knew that no one could accept their brand of deliberate , mindless , gang violence . |
| 13 | The larger companies are already coming to terms with the new regulations . |
| 14 | But they , like the third Limerick club dominating the league — Young Munster — are only gradually coming to terms with the demands for 15-man attacking play . |
| 15 | Couples , second in the Sony rankings to Faldo , is still coming to terms with the adulation heaped on him after Augusta but is prepared to run the gauntlet again if it means winning a second Major . |
| 16 | The holiday was particularly useful for children who are still coming to terms with their conditions and may have been robbed of their self-confidence . |
| 17 | Woking , who knocked out West Brom two seasons ago , are still coming to terms with their first season in the Conference , but their Cup-fighting instincts are sure to resurface for their trip to Brighton . |
| 18 | This is when the pupil is still coming to terms with using a low vision aid and is not yet skilful in its use , but needs to read text and notes that are too advanced in content to be available in the large print of junior and early reading books . |
| 19 | ‘ We are , he said , at the initial stages , still coming to terms with what we need to do . ’ |
| 20 | The local community is still coming to terms with the loss of the Trident contract four months ago . |
| 21 | Today at an emergency meeting with Union Leaders to discuss their future , they were still coming to terms with the shock of redundancy . |
| 22 | They 're still coming to terms with it . |
| 23 | Perhaps the teenage scribblers — not to mention the longer-in-the-tooth City commentators who helped to orchestrate last year 's departure of Robert Horton as BP 's chairman and chief executive — are still coming to terms with Financial Reporting Standard No 3 , the new format recommended by the Stock Exchange for presenting details of financial performance . |
| 24 | Mrs Adams said her four sons — Richard , nine , Stuart , five , Mark , two , and Thomas , 11 months — were still coming to terms with the loss of their father , a former Royal Air Force engineer whom she described as a happy , family man . |
| 25 | Staff are still coming to terms with the decision to close the main part of the Junction factory within two years , making 100 workers redundant . |
| 26 | Now Giggs is quickly coming to terms with the facts of life . |
| 27 | The word processing market is rapidly coming to terms with desktop publishing , particularly on the PC . |
| 28 | Since they have been in Brazil things have not been easy but they have settled in well and are slowly coming to terms with the language . |
| 29 | She is slowly coming to terms with her past and exorcising the ghosts . |
| 30 | It is well known that the Princess wanted ‘ out ’ of the Royal Family , but to her fellow passengers it was also clear she is only now coming to terms with the fact that she really is out — and quite alone . |